Re: A desperate plea.....

[Night Shadow <soltwede@ucsub.colorado.edu>]

Nate, I have a perfectly good 1.7 here that you can HAVE, you just need to
come get it or I can crate it to you for the cost of shipping.  I am in
Colorado.  (Motor has about 100K on it, runs strong, no smoke, no
problems, comes out of my mint 81 S that was religiously maintained)

Thats my charity! Take it or leave it! :-)~

Eric

80 Rocco (Daily Driver)
81 Rocco S (2.0 16v swap and restore in progress)

"For Aquarians, the physics of loopholes is a perfectly valid science." 
-Kelli Fox

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Nate Mellom wrote:

> Hello all my fellow listers.....
> This email comes after a long night of soul searching and pondering.  It
> all started when I was at the drug store this evening.  I walked out of
> the door and I heard a most amazing sound on the road coming towards me,
> it was the sweet sound of a tuned exhaust hooked up to a VR6 in a jet
> black Corrado SLC.  As it drove past, I found myself lusting after on of
> these wonderful machines once again.  Then I looked at my car, my 1986
> Nissan Maxima with it's weak V6, somewhat rusty door panels, the same
> car that has been in my family since we bought it new all those years
> ago, and I dreaded driving home.  I thought of my poor Scirocco, sitting
> in a storage 'cell', shivering, huddled under it's blanket of snow,
> waiting for a heart transplant like it has been since my engine seized
> in October.  I hated myself for getting myself into the financial strait
> that I've gotten myself into over these past years, an (ex)-struggling
> college student with too many bills and not enough money.  So this is
> what I came up with.
> For the first time in my life, I'm asking for charity.  I'm pleading to
> my fellow Volkswagen enthusiasts (who I KNOW hate seeing a poor 'rocco
> owner driving a Rice burner) to help me out.  To be blunt, I'm asking
> for money.  Pennies, nickels, dimes, anything.  My plan is to purchase a
> new (used, but in good shape) 1.8 JH motor.  Nothing fancy, no mods, I
> just want an engine.  I figure I can buy an engine for around $300,
> installation would be done by myself and a fellow European car nut (he's
> a Volvo fan).  In return, I offer myself in whatever way I can be of
> assistance, watching the kids, walking the dog, washing 'roccos,
> whatever I can possibly do.  I don't want to take money with no return,
> so if you have any bright ideas don't be afraid to let me know.
> 
> If anyone out there would be half interested in any of this, please
> email me directly.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Nate Mellom
> '84 Silver Scirocco
> 
> PS.  Of course, I'm mostly half kidding about all of this, but I figured
> what the heck, it might just work.  I am broke, my car does need an
> engine, and my Maxima is getting more and more depressing everyday.
> 
> 
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